Sick Kitty

Our cat Winnie has been suffering from some sort of loss of balance from time to time. It really freaked us out at first! The first episode was about 8 months ago? I can't remember. But she just started falling all over the place. She looked drunk. A~ thought it was funny until he realized how concerned K~ and I were (it would've been funny if it wasn't so scary). Our cat has always "yacked" all the time. We called her the bulimic. But after one of her particularly bad episodes of falling, not eating, and listlessness we took her to the vet, the first question out of her mouth was has she been vomiting? To which we replied all the time, for her entire 11 years (and yes we told other vets, who said she just ate too fast). The vet thought it could still have something to do with her new illness and we agreed to run blood work. The vet said she had moderately raised levels, something to do with kidney function, and it could be causing some of her vomiting. Winnie was prescribed special soft cat food that would also help with her dehydration issues. I was doubtful she'd eat it, she's always hated soft food! Well she proved me wrong! It was as if she'd discovered cat chocolate. She loves the stuff, I'm not so fond of it, it stinks to hi-heaven and her breath smells. It made me gag for the first week, ugh... Now she just stalks the kitchen waiting, hoping, looking forlorn if we dare to enter and leave without giving her some of her new food. She has the most pathetic pouty face I've ever seen! We're only allowed to give her so much a day, but we supplement with the same prescription dry food in a separate bowl. Whenever we refill the hard food without refilling the wet food, she literally walks away in a huff! (On the plus side she rarely vomits anymore!)
This is also the cat that when K~ and I would go on vacation leaving my mom to watch her, would swear at my mother. Well, not real words ;-) but my mom would tell me how Winnie would give her a stern talking to every time she went over to feed Winnie "I tell you that cat is swearing at me!". And she'd usually do the same to us when we came home from a trip.
Anyway, I write all of this because Winnie's illness has taken another twist, last night all of a sudden her head listed to her right side. She couldn't move from her spot in the kitchen, she just sat there as if she was trying to look behind her. When I'd call her she'd move her ears but instead of looking to where I was she'd turn her head even more to the right. When she did get up her head remained looking right and she circled around and sat down, she did this several times only moving a few feet. After about 2 hours she started walking a little more straight but here head was still off kilter. K~ was so worried he stayed up and searched the net and found a great blog about what our poor little Winna-winna is going through. The first post at the bottom of the page has nearly 2 years worth of comments from fellow cat owners that are very helpful. So we are thinking that she has Feline vestibular syndrome (FVS) in fact the Vet had mentioned that this could be a possibility months ago, she said they have no clue what causes it, some cats get attacks and some are permanently altered in some way.
In fact today Winnie is fine for the most part. The attack may have been brought on by the weather, this weekend it was chilly and then 73 yesterday and chilly and cloudy today. I guess barometric pressure has something to do with it. Hopefully our little fluffy girl doesn't get too scared when she becomes crooked kitty.